Re: feature-request: don't count history time comment lines when in HISTFILESIZE

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/25/15 3:02 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 14:48 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: 
>> The history file truncation code already skips lines that look like history
>> timestamps.  Look at history.c:history_truncate_file().
> Ah? Hmm was that only recently introduced?

Bash-3.0.

> I'm having bash4.3 with patches up to including 33. And this time I
> looked whether Debian added any of it's goodness ;-)

I'll take a look.

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